Toteng

For the smaller village near Francistown, see Toteng, North-East.

Toteng is a village in the north west of Botswana, Ngamiland. The town is the location of the oldest "directly dated evidence of cattle in southern Africa".^[1][2] Nearby towns are Sehithwa and Bobideng to the west, Tsau and Gumare to the north and Maun to the northeast.

Toteng

Toteng (Botswana)

The village has both a hospital and a school.

In 2012 the Boseto mine, an open-pit copper mine, was opened in Toteng.^[3] It closed down in 2015,^[4] but is expected to reopen as an underground mine, sometimes known as the Zeta Mine.^[5]